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Seize the Dance!: Baaka Musical Life and Ethnography of Performance
Seize the Dance Baaka Musical Life and Ethnography of Performance Author:Michelle Robin Kisliuk "Pygmy Music" has captivated the ethnomusical imagination around the world, yet this culture has never been described in detail from a participatory, humanistic perspective. Seize the Dance! addresses the music and dance of BaAka forest people of the Lobaye region, Central African Republic, and also provides a model for a kind of vivid scholarly... more » writing, the ethnography of performance. Based on the author's ethnographic research from 1986 through 1995, it describes songs, drum rhythms, dance movements, and their immediate, interactive context within an elegantly written narrative illustrated with numerous photographs, musical illustrations, and field recordings on two compact discs. Theoretical issues addressed include socioaesthetics and the politics of identity, gender relations, colonialism, and missionization. Besides scholars and students of ethnomusicology, ethnography, African studies, and performance studies, this book will also appeal to general readers interested in world music.« less